Woop, woop! It's Friday and a holiday weekend! I hope you have some exciting plans for this weekend. Perhaps something in a wilderness area or maybe some white water rafting; 'cuz I sure don't and reporting on the weekend would be a lot more fun if one of us risked life and limb. Therefore, I volunteered you. I hope you feel properly honored!
If the Lord truly desired our swift justice for each and every sin, would any of us still be here? Of course that is the negative way of trying to prove the lovingkindness of the Lord. A better way is to approach His lovingkindness through love. Well, when you look at it that it way it does make some sense. I mean, love to lovingkindness, yeah, I can see the root word there, I think. No, no, we're not talking just words and such. We want to look at the decision the Lord made a long time ago to love His creation, even when they went bad.
As Adam cowered in the bushes, a probable origin of the term 'coward', the Lord came looking for the man. Now, the Lord did not need to discover that Adam had sinned, for the Lord knows all things. Even with that rebellion already taken place, the Lord still came looking for His beloved creation. Why not introduce forgiveness and mercy right there, and then continue the evening walks in the Garden? Well, God had a plan for this rebellion, and it probably wasn't made up on the spot. God's love came down to earth in the form of himself as a human being. God would defeat sin on the cross and redeem mankind and all of His creation. But, we often miss that other thing that didn't happen: God didn't execute swift justice on the man's sin in the form of outer darkness, hell, eternity and such. Without God's love, we wouldn't be here to discover God's love!
Have a wonderful weekend in the love of Christ!Bucky
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